Assign User-objects to a Group while editing Group-object in Django admin

Question

In the default Django admin view for user-object (edit user) one can edit the user\'s group memberships. What if I wanted this the other way around also? I.e. in the group e

Answer 1

Here is a simpler approach that uses Django's InlineModelAdmin objects (answered here on Qubanshi.cc)

from django.contrib.auth.admin import GroupAdmin
from django.contrib.auth.models import User, Group

class UserSetInline(admin.TabularInline):
    model = User.groups.through
    raw_id_fields = ('user',)  # optional, if you have too many users

class MyGroupAdmin(GroupAdmin):
    inlines = [UserSetInline]

# unregister and register again
admin.site.unregister(Group)
admin.site.register(Group, MyGroupAdmin)